Thread: Daikin or Fujitsu AirCon

We went with Daikin. No problems with the unit itself after 5 years but the installation itself was a bit rough.

Done this research a few years ago for my oldies and went with Daikin. Was a bit exy but has been faultless. At the time had the best performance in extreme climate.

personally, i wouldnt go ducted, i'd go with seperate splits

also, my choice would be either Fujitsu, Kelvinator or Mitsubishi heavy industries, ive seen too many issues with daikins not liking anything but a 100% stable power supply

Originally Posted by Sprint

personally, i wouldnt go ducted, i'd go with seperate splits

also, my choice would be either Fujitsu, Kelvinator or Mitsubishi heavy industries, ive seen too many issues with daikins not liking anything but a 100% stable power supply

Our previous house had a 2-zone ducted system and it was good (an old Email system).

We have Daikin split systems at each of the locations where I work. They are so crappy at cooling or heating the rooms that I've sworn never to buy one. Of course, that could be due to bad installation because the installer fitted them where it was easy for him, not where it would be good for the user.

At my current workplace, I told the installer that where he planned to install it wouldn't be any good (based on previous work locations) and I was right.

I'd rather stay with our current window aircon units.

my mate used to work on the CAD for commercial Daikin U.K. doing ceiling and floor plans , they are commercial specialists really and they are designed for just that.
And it is a perceived required coldness that they work to, if they are actually too cold people would whinge like poms, so they have a guide that they go off to ensure they hit the variables.(doesn't necessarily account for our climate i'm guessing)
probably wouldn't use em in my castle i would go fujitsu smaller output condensers and compressors built for the job

Up where we live the company installs Dakin. These run in our house 24 hours a day everyday as A/C only and for reliabilty there is a single unit running each room. In the configuration they have a life expectancy of about 3 years.

Ron. I don't know about the new systems, we had ducted A/C insalled
in 1985. I think it was York/ email, and honestly. we have never had a
problem or touched it since. I has worked in A/C. heating when required
all year round. I would say that it is quite obsolete now . The ducted systems are more expensive, but every room or the whole house is
the same temp.
1985 $ 3950.00. and we thought that was expensive back then.
Ducted the only way to go..Mark

Ron,

In a past life when I lived in Taswegia, I used to work as an advisory officer for the local electricity distributor.

So putting this into context the systems I've had experience are heat pump inverters. That is they are genuine dual cycle machines designed to heat and cool (who needs aircon in Tassie eh)

Most of the people I advised selected Daikin, certainly for ducted systems. I don't have a preference for either but from my experience the Daikins are better built with more robust heat exchangers ( specially in salt air areas) more robust electronics (for area's with crap supply quality) and quieter fans both on internal units and external units.

Having said all that I've seen Fugitsu units installed and perform faultlessly, my only real criticism of them is that they seem to be noisier on ducted internal units.

One of the most important factors is not so much the unit itself but how your house is built.

In Oz for the last 50 years we have been building an amazing array of houses with little or no thought about insulation. Given that on the heating side of the equation the thermal exchange of these machines is 1:2.68 and about 1: 2.2 cooling they are a brilliant machine.

The best way to capitalise on this something for nothing return is make sure your house is properly insulated. Roof at @ least R3, Walls R2 minimum, good door seals and lastly but by no means least work out the area of glass in the verticle wall areas and double glaze it.

Here ends the sermon .